Please join Village Council and Alexandria Planning Commission at a

free presentation of the Award Winning Video:

Save Our Land, Save Our Towns

Monday December 5^th 7:00 pm

 

At Alexandria Baptist Church, 94 West Main St., Alexandria, OH

 

A Short Discussion will follow the hour long video.

 

Remember the wonderful thriving town we once were!

 

 

Questions? – Call Councilmember Karen Holt 740-924-9355 or

Planning Commission member David Greene 740-924-0516

 

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America the beautiful?

 

Deserted main streets, endless strip commercial development, car-clogged highways, meadows turned into subdivisions — is this what we want for America? For Alexandria?

 

How does a small town ... a township … a county ... a state ... or a nation reverse the twin blights of suburban sprawl and urban decay? This question became the focal point of a crusade by Pennsylvania newsman Tom Hylton in the mid 1980s, as he watched his lovely small town decline while the surrounding countryside was paved over for a jumble of roads, stores, parking lots, and tract housing.

 

A growing number of Americans have grown disgusted with a throw-away culture that allows once-magnificent cities and towns to wither away while treasured landscapes are ruined by feckless development. They're tired of the constant driving, the ugliness, the feeling of isolation brought about by sprawl. They yearn for safe, verdant, walkable neighborhoods.

 

But reversing 50 years of car-dominated sprawl will not be easy.

 

Save Our Land, Save Our Towns was founded by Tom Hylton to facilitate change — change in private attitudes, change in public policy. Through education and advocacy, the non-profit champions the use of:

 

• regional planning
• growth boundaries
• traditional town design

 

... to protect rural areas and encourage the redevelopment of cities and towns that house people of all ages, races and incomes.